Changing default version in ports of openjdk to 1.7?

[Greg Lewis]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 05:48:08PM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2014, at 12:37, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > What do people think about changing the default version in ports
> > of Java for most java-related ports to openjdk 1.7?
> >
> > I think there was some initial discussion of this at BSDCan,
> > but wanted to know what people thought about it,
> > and if there was any effort in freebsd-java@ to update
> > all the relevant ports.
> 
> I believe that our goal is actually to have 1.8 by fall.  Greg?

Yes, but I think it's worth taking the intermediate step to 7 for 9.3.

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